Friday 2 October, 2026

David’s One of my favourite bookshops. Above it is the apartment where Maynard Keynes and his wife Lydia Lopokova used to stay when they were in Cambridge. Quote of the Day ”Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.” Bertrand Russell Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Gerry Mulligan | Night Lights A Link Long Read of the Day AI giants are trying to sell us the apocalypse. Don’t buy it My most recent Observer column: Three weeks ago, Jacob Coxon, a hitherto unknown AI researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and announced on X that his former employers were toying with humanity’s future. “They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Within a day, his post had gone viral. Then, four days later, Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, published a long essay calling for a slowdown in AI development until proper safeguards were in place. Cue, global panic, at least in the mainstream media, with…